Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Prologue 6) [Analysis]

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Citations:
“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is—to live dangerously!”
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Edited by Bernard Williams. Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 161.

“Zarathustra the dancer, Zarathustra the light one who waves with his wings, the flightworthy, waving to all birds, worthy and ready, a blissful lightweight.”
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Edited by Adrian Del Caro and Robert B. Pippin. Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 239.

“Dionysiac art [...] is based on play with intoxication, with the state of ecstasy. [...] Not only do the festivals of Dionysos forge a bond between human beings, they also reconcile human beings and nature. [...] As they sing and dance, human beings express their membership of a higher, more ideal community; they have forgotten how to walk and speak. Yet it is more than this: they feel themselves to have been transformed by magic, and they really have become something different.”
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings. Edited by Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs. Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 120.

“The tightrope walker had begun his work; he had emerged from a little door and was walking across the rope stretched between two towers, such that it hung suspended over the market place and the people.”
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Edited by Adrian Del Caro and Robert B. Pippin. Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 11.

“Just as he was at the midpoint of his way, the little door opened once again and a colorful fellow resembling a jester leaped forth and hurried after the first man with quick steps. ‘Forward, sloth, smuggler, pale face! Or I'll tickle you with my heel! What business have you here between the towers? You belong in the tower, you should be locked away in the tower, for you block the way for one who is better than you!’”
Ibid.

“He threw away his pole and plunged into the depths even faster than his pole.”
Ibid.

“‘By my honor, friend!‘ answered Zarathustra. ‘All that you are talking about does not exist. There is no devil and no hell. Your soul will be dead even sooner than your body—fear no more!’”
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Edited by Adrian Del Caro and Robert B. Pippin. Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 11.

“The man looked up mistrustfully. ‘If you speak the truth,’ he said, ‘then I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal that has been taught to dance by blows and little treats.’”
Ibid., p. 11.

“‘Not at all,’ said Zarathustra. ‘You made your vocation out of danger, and there is nothing contemptible about that.’”
Ibid., p. 12.

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